1. Conversations with my father during his last three years.2. My wife, after she’s been gone for 24 hours.3. Buttons that actually depress when you push them.4. Richard Pryor and Robin Williams.5. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses.6. Enough hair to brush.7. Friendships from high school. Facebook, decades later, is just not the same.8. Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum.9. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.10. Fido and Rover, the first dogs my wife and I owned as a couple.11. K-State weekday afternoon baseball games. 12. Running half-marathons every spring and fall with my son when he was in college.13. My grandfather, Victor Ordway, and his aircraft carrier-sized Chryslers.14. Mary Richards and Murphy Brown.15. Time management discipline the DVR took away.16. Stress-free air travel.17. Reading something in a hard copy newspaper that I’ve not already seen electronically.18. The proper use of ellipses, semicolons, and the Oxford Comma.

19. Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Roberto Clemente.20. Using actual money.21. Boston, Kansas, and the Steve Miller Band.22. The total lack of ambiguity in my paternal grandmother’s Catholicism.23. When “Breaking News” was just that.24. Home service appointments more specific than “sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.”25. A thousand points of light.26. The easily discernable ideology of the Cold War.27. Magic and Bird.28. Glenn Frey, Maurice White, and Walter Becker.29. The political middle.30. The two-letter county designation preceding the number on Kansas license plates.31. My father-in-law.32. Duran Duran, Howard Jones, and Tears for Fears. “Everybody wants to rule the world.”33. Congressional leaders with a spine. (see #8)34. Presidents of the United States who are not narcissists.35. Early Steve Martin comedy.36. Eating donuts with impunity.